Never mind, it’s hopeless …
The city of Dallas is cracking down on unpaid parking tickets. Looks like a good time to be in the handcuff business. Via FrontBurner
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How a Thought Becomes a Law
And with proper discourse, so the wheels begin to turn … check out the Bud Kennedy column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the prospects for more-legal gambling in Texas. As I started reading, I began to grumble a bit
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Aces’ post-jail spam
Got an email from Aces … and though I am pretty sure about 85 percent of all Pokerati readers have received the same email two or three times already: Thank you for your patronage. First off, we would like to
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Who’s Going to the World Series?
Reggie Perry, that\’s who. Congratulations to \”Sarge\” for winning the Lodge TOC. It was a good match … the whole of which turned on one significant hand … when Greg Miles pushed in with his AJ on the button, only
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Big Shiny Prizes
If you’re playing in the Lodge TOC today/tomorrow, you should be asleep right now. The rest of you can enjoy a sneak peak at what is arguably the coolest poker trophy to date. Big prizes on the line … the
A tournament that didn’t get busted
Aces was hardly the only action in town on Saturday. Apparently, there was a big charity tourney in Garland that went off without a hitch. The \”Annual All-In for the Kids Texas Hold\’em Tournament\” … or something close to that
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Birth of a Crackdown?
I\’m not ready to declare the sky on Dallas poker falling, but it has for certain turned rather green. (Look, over there! I think it\’s a wall cloud!) With the Channel 8 \”expose\” and the Dallas SWAT raid … there\’s
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More on the Aces raid (2)
Some finer details, from a reliable firsthand source: 12-15 SWAT guys, carrying M16s and MP5s. Most of them were professional and courteous in their show of overwhelming force, but there were \”a couple macho SWAT-type assholes.\” 15-20 more uniformed officers
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More on the Aces raid
Some basics trickling in: Raid went down about 9 pm. Aces was in the middle of an 8-table tourney … with a few tables of cash games and sit-n-go\’s running. About 10 people got carted away in handcuffs — dealers
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Sh*t hitting fan (?) in Dallas Underground
Aces just got busted. Cops came in with a swat team and TV news crews. All players ticketed (except for those who didn\’t listen to the cops who said, \”Don\’t move,\” and got up from the table). Dealers arrested. Also
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